GeForce 313.96 Beta Driver Download

Download the GeForce 313.96 Beta driver. This is the recommended GeForce driver for the Crysis 3 Multiplayer Open Beta. It delivers a smoother gaming experience, and boosts SLI performance by up to 65%. EA’s recommended GeForce GPU for Crysis 3 is a GeForce GTX 560 or higher. For the Hi-Performance PC Specification, EA recommends GeForce GTX 680.

Other highlights include sizeable SLI and single-GPU performance gains of up to 27% in Assassin’s Creed III, 19% in Civilization V, 14% in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, 14% in DiRT 3, 11% in Just Cause 2, 10% in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, 10% in F1 2012, and 10% in Far Cry 3.

Rounding out the release is a SLI profile for the newly released DmC: Devil May Cry, and an updated profile for the free-to-play, third-person co-op shooter, Warframe.

#4513253 Posted on: 01/29/2013 03:30 PM
So 313.96 is only fixed installer!? And its still saying 313.95 on NV page, and both links if 313.95 or 313.96 are the same. And what it says when installed? 95 or 96?

#4513291 Posted on: 01/29/2013 04:17 PM
This has nothing to do with the old Clamp-Switch, this is exclusively for SGSSAA-Only.

If Override or Enhanced no matter, if they use SGSSAA (2x,4x,8x) in the NV Inspector, the Automatic-LOD is always enabled.
Unless you set the Value to "0", then does not use LOD-Adjustment.
Here the Auto-LOD Values:
2xSGSSAA LOD -0.4
4xSGSSAA LOD -0.8
8xSGSSAA LOD -1.2

YES. I know this.

SGSSAA Auto LOD Adjustment BROKE The CLAMP switch.

You get AUTO LOD no matter what now with SGSSAA.

Clamp does not work anymore. Hence "Broken Clamp"

It's even listed as a technical limitation in previous drivers.

People wanted NLOD for DX11 SGSSAA. They got it, and Nvidia broke Clamp in the process.

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#4513300 Posted on: 01/29/2013 04:25 PM

Getting the black screen/reboot glitch here too.

While trying to play a game? Was it a Bethesda game? By coincidence I just happened to try Skyrim, Dishonored, Fallout:NV and none will run for me on either the 95 or 96 drivers. Seems they don't like Bethesda much.

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#4513303 Posted on: 01/29/2013 04:26 PM

Getting the black screen/reboot glitch here too.

disconnect your internet while installing the driver.

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#4513306 Posted on: 01/29/2013 04:27 PM
I see that as an issue with Bethesda. Nearly all of their games are in a beta type phase and we buy to test the betas out. :p

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#4513308 Posted on: 01/29/2013 04:28 PM

While trying to play a game? Was it a Bethesda game? By coincidence I just happened to try Skyrim, Dishonored, Fallout:NV and none will run for me on either the 95 or 96 drivers. Seems they don't like Bethesda much.

On boot-up/ start. By time i've got to opening Chrome the driver caves and i'm greeted with a black screen.

disconnect your internet while installing the driver.

See above.

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#4513310 Posted on: 01/29/2013 04:30 PM

Getting the black screen/reboot glitch here too.

same her with beta .95 and the new .96! crash and reboot directly when the driver is updated.

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#4513313 Posted on: 01/29/2013 04:31 PM

While trying to play a game? Was it a Bethesda game? By coincidence I just happened to try Skyrim, Dishonored, Fallout:NV and none will run for me on either the 95 or 96 drivers. Seems they don't like Bethesda much.

TIP:
That or disable Windows from installing drivers automatically "Google", otherwise Win 8 will install a 304 series driver on top of what you just installed off the internet, causing all kinds of night mares.

These drivers have been rock solid here. No issues in any games installed. First driver since the 306.97 to not have minor issues.

Will keep for now.

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#4513356 Posted on: 01/29/2013 05:25 PM

just played some skyrim after your posting and no problems for me.

I've narrowed it down to sli for me. If sli is disabled then game starts normally. Soon as I enable sli the trouble begins. Someone mind posting the latest sli bit so I can compare and eliminate that possibility? Thanks.

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#4513417 Posted on: 01/29/2013 06:30 PM
I am on windows 7 using surround setup with 3 monitors, there is an issue with the confine taskbar to center display.

Any one using triple monitors experienced that ?

Also how are these drivers with windows 8?
Is the task bar centered with these drivers and windows 8?

First time Crysis 3 crashed with the drivers together now it works fine

I actually had the same problem at first. Turned out that it was the EVGA Precision OSD which made the game crash here. So if anyone has the same problem: turn off the OSD in EVGA Precision (and perhaps MSI Afterburner has the same problem).

SLI Scaling with 2 670's in Crysis 3 is just... not there. Perhaps they really just optimized it for the 690 for now. Usage on my primary card is about 99% and on my secondary it's about 4-5%.

Other than that, great drivers so far as far as I can tell. Far Cry 3 is really smooth and I happened to be playing the Wither 2 lately, and performance seems vastly improved (even though it wasn't all that bad to begin with); from around 80-90 fps to 120-130 fps in some areas (which is very welcome since I'm a 120Hz gamer).

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#4513482 Posted on: 01/29/2013 07:28 PM

They got it, and Nvidia broke Clamp in the process.

I saw in the release notes that D3D clamping is not supported on Fermi or later. I thought it used to work on these graphics cards as well but maybe I was wrong. Doubt it though, because it seems my LOD bias setting is also broken and I'm positive that worked in D3D before.

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#4513554 Posted on: 01/29/2013 08:45 PM

Works fine with a single 670, seems they broke the SLI profile. Did you compare the bits?

Thanks for the info, i tried once again and it was still the same. sli looked like it was -badly- working as gpu usage varied between 30-40% on each gpu (i use ab and g510 for real time monitoring) and fps were still under 30. But it looks like the 313.xx sets have been removed from the nv download page and do not show up in nvupdate for a good reason probably. Will wait for the next set

Edit- Nope, didn't try to compare them but should have

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#4513572 Posted on: 01/29/2013 09:09 PM
Their is something wrong with these drivers for me. I know Guildwars 2 has just had a patch but.... before the patch/driver everything ran smooth. Never dipped below 60 and judder free (310.70's). Now though the game seems to stutter and not seem smooth even though it reads 60 at all times via Afterburner.

I'm gonna go back to the 310.70 and report back as if it was this driver or the patch...

EDIT: It's not the patch! It's this driver. Btw I'm not overclocked on gfx. No stutter or un-smoothness with 310.70.

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#4513617 Posted on: 01/29/2013 09:39 PM
That really seems to be SLI related then, I just played again and it's smooth as silk (considering GW2 standards) with just one card. Or maybe it's the AO change, have both of you enabled Ambient Occlusion maybe? And did you try the new smooth VSync option? And have the SLI bits changed?

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#4513618 Posted on: 01/29/2013 09:42 PM
is this driver better than the last quadro?